The Travel Writer as Intellectual Adventurer
William Dalrymple, the Scottish Catholic adventurer, wrote in his book From the Holy Mountain about the avant-garde debris of Byzantium, the following: “John Moschos did what the avant-garde biking biographer still does: he wandered the apple in seek of aberrant belief and arresting travellers’ tales.”Note that Dalrymple did not say that travellers go to ascertain [...]
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